Inventing the Internet

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TitleInventing the Internet
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1999
AuthorsAbbate, Janet
Number of Pages264 pp.
PublisherThe MIT Press
CityCambridge, MA
LanguageEnglish
ISBN262011727
Abstract

Abate sees the key to the internet's rapid and seemingly chaotic growth as the result of a decentralized, user-driven environment. She traces the development of networked resources from Cold War think tanks and the ARPANET to the present successful free-form applications.
Annotation

White heat and cold war : the origins and meanings of packet
Building the ARPANET : challenges and strategies
"The most neglected element" : users transform the ARPANET
From ARPANET to Internet
The Internet in the international standards arena
Popularizing the Internet.

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